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Aslaaf's first edit was to set up archiving of his user talk page, which is pretty specialised for a new user. Talk page archiving is something that Nazim Hussain Pak asked me about at User talk:Cordless Larry/Archive 12. Aslaaf's second and third edits were to articles created by Nazim Hussain Pak. He then chose my user talk page to post a comment on, despite the fact that we had previously had no contact. For a new editor, Aslaaf's signature is rather sophisticated (and is piped, as was Nazim Hussain Pak's). See also Teahouse/Questions/Archive 647. Compare also the pages User:Aslaaf and User:Nazim Hussain Pak. Cordless Larry (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Being very active IP for about 2 years, i have enough knowledge of editing here. I do not have to do with anything with Nazim Hussain Pak. I have enough experience to contribute. I have been improving articles, specially related to Pakistan. I know Mr. Larry is in doubt, but I know Larry is among most respected users, i have sometimes interacted with them. Unnumberable users have piped signs, so I. That is not wrong. Everything is in light, even the Night is Bright. 09:28, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * Not at all! I haven't used any IP. I don't even know that user! Check my edit history I mainly edit video game articles, mlp articles and fights vandalism. My intentions are always to help wikipedia, what is the connection between me and that user? Please don't accuse an innocent user for being a sockpuppet! 😢 Pure conSouls (talk) 12:42, 6 September 2017 (UTC)


 * I just saw that user's edit history, our taste is very very very different, that user edits articles mainly related to Pakistan, articles which I never touched! 😕 Pure conSouls (talk) 13:04, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * FWIW I tend to agree that there is no behavioural similarity, but would like another admin's second opinion due to the very - exceptionally - high crossover in IP use. Yunshui 雲 水 13:16, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

I really don't know about the IP thing, but I always used only one account in wikipedia, I don't know who that guy is? He joined wikipedia after me and took a long break in between as well. I know wikipedia's rules and always helped this site by providing true information, correcting grammatical mistakes, fighting vandalism, etc. 😣 Pure conSouls (talk) 11:58, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * - Please compare to the master. Thanks, GABgab 22:00, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Ugh, IPs from this part of the world are always such a nightmare... This is going to take me an enormous amount of time; I may have to come back to it tomorrow. This user has been assigned a new IP address for virtually every edit, so there is lot of sorting out to be done. Thankfully, Nazim's technical fingerprints are pretty unique, which helps (since there are at least two other (I believe unrelated) sockfarms pottering about on the same ranges). As a result, I can say with a degree of certainty that the following accounts are ✅ as Nazim Hussain Pak:
 * (known from previous investigation, but included for completeness)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui 雲 水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui 雲 水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui 雲 水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui 雲 水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui 雲 水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui 雲 水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui 雲 水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd also suggest that the reviewing admin takes a look at User:Pure conSouls - the useragent data makes them appear ❌, but the degree of crossover is exceptionally high; Pure conSouls appears to have used virtually every IP used by NHP (of which, as I said, there are many hundreds). Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 12:29, 6 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Could this be a case of shared IPs, maybe a sibling? GABgab 00:18, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Pretty much every IP used by NHP is shared, and there are literally hundreds of accounts using them. The ones listed above are those that share NHP's fairly uncommon useragent data. It is possible that there might be a couple of false positives in there and this should be taken into account if any of them request unblock, but I would recommend getting a CU's opinion in such circumstances. As for Pure conSouls, I'm honestly not sure - from a behavioural perspective there is no similarity, and their useragent data is different. I was simply surprised to see them on virtually every NHP IP address (there are no other accounts which appear with anything like the same frequency), but on the whole, I think an actual real-life connection is unlikely. Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 07:24, 8 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Yunshui. I'm closing this without action against Pure conSouls. GABgab 15:23, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

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New account Red Fire has created Chak Saleem Kot, which bears remarkable similarities in style to Draft:Chak Choti Shafi, has also pinged me on their talk page as Nazim Hussain Pak would do frequently, and has requested usurpation of the account. A WP:DUCK case. Cordless Larry (talk) 14:14, 19 September 2017 (UTC) Cordless Larry (talk) 14:14, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

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This account is not of NHP. I have been here for just days. I have asked for help which I need to proceed. I have nothining to do with NHP. Everyone who asks help is not NHP. I have already asked for help to many users. Red Fire (talk) 17:06, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

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Despite the claims above, this user is ✅ as a sock of NHP. Is anyone surprised? Yunshui <sup style="font-size:90%">雲 <sub style="font-size:90%">水 19:49, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Sock already blocked by Yunshui, so nothing more to do. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 19:30, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

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An IP asking me exactly the same question as Red Fire did. Cordless Larry (talk) 09:59, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

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 * I have blocked the IP address for 48 hours. Whether the editor will return on another IP address remains to be seen, however. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 12:10, 22 September 2017 (UTC)